from Ohio to West Virginia during her teens. My grandfather moved from Ohio to California during his preteens. It was time for my big move‚ and as a result I grew into the person I am today. I was eleven when my father told me the news that I was moving. At first I didn’t believe him‚ and treated the move as a joke. It was when my dad took my brother
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class when I was eight years old. On March 28th‚ 2008‚ my family and I moved to America from Japan. Despite having an English-speaking father‚ I was still unfamiliar with the language. I could not read‚ write‚ or speak fluently. At the time‚ I thought moving was the worst decision my parents had made. I had to learn a new language while being in the same grade as my age. I had no friends and I was lost. As I grew older‚ I started to appreciate this life-changing experience because it shaped a shy‚ hesitant
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part of who I am. Before moving to Canada‚ I moved to a small town in rural Maine. My family built the home we call “Old Brick” in 1812‚ and it is has been passed down ever since. I moved to Canada six months later‚ however we returned to Maine every summer. Living in Maine created a strong contrast to my life in Halifax and exposed me to people from different walks of life. This international perspective influences and fuels my desire to learn about the world. I am a product of globalization‚ and it
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throws our closest away into the lake. We don’t have anything to sleep on and my step dad put his jacket on the ground and he make my sister and I a little bed. I couldn’t sleep I was really cold and scared my mom and step dad was whispering about how they are going to pass the guards without them hearing us. They were really worried and sad about me and my sister I heard them saying we should’ve left the kids at home. They decide to wake up around 5:00 AM which is the time the guards go to sleep
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against it I would have not moved. Then it was to tell my only uncle who was like my father brothers‚ nieces‚ nephews‚ godchildren’s‚ and friends. That was definitely fun. NOT!!! Telling the people that I loved and knew my entire life that I was moving was the hardest thing ever. There were so many different emotions. Some was happy for me wanting to leave that place and bettering my life. Then there were others that was so hurt and did not want me to leave and some just did not believe that I
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Hungry for Healthiness There’s a poem that was written in 2005‚ titled Fast Food‚ Slow Death‚ the writer goes by Terrance the Terrible he started; “Oh‚ I love the greasy‚ tasty‚ salty‚ fattening things / Hamburgers‚ Milkshakes‚ fries‚ and onion rings / Footlong hot dogs‚ all beef patty /All so yummy‚ all so fatty.” (“Terrance” 1-4) The character Terrance describes has a love for these fatty meals. “It’s easier to rip at oily paper than at banana peals / Who cares about the consequences / The food
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communicate to others by a new language. You have to do a bunch of things that you have never done before. How would you feel at that time? That was my story of the first days I lived in America. To me‚ those days were the most difficult time in my life up to now. Sometime‚ I even felt very stressful because of struggling with my new life. However‚ I did learn of lot from that. Now‚ I am going to tell you how I experienced the stressful time and some useful ways that I did to reduce my stress. I moved to
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Exposing a Problem There are various issues that people face in their day to day lives‚ whether it’s personal or universal. One specific issue that I personally face‚ is the adjustment of moving to a completely different country‚ specifically from Egypt to the United States. I know for a fact many people face this problem‚ especially immigrants that have to flee their country against their own will due to safety issues. They must leave their homeland and flee to a new country where there are
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Clack‚ clack‚ clack. That is the noise my feet make when I usher myself up the stairs to safety. By safety‚ I mean my bedroom. Safe from? Not from the world‚ this isn’t a narrative about how the world is too hard for me to handle. Safety from my family rather. No‚ they’re not abusive and I don’t need to be saved from them. It’s more safety from not having to talk to them and just be by myself. Again‚ no‚ I don’t have long black straightened hair and listen to Metallica. I don’t like to be alone that
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A Moving Experience This piece is about how traveling and how it is a misinterpreted by many. I speaks mainly of how traveling is not a fun as people seem to make it instead it is a rather mundane. Rather this piece exposes traveling a lonely experience if done incorrectly. In this passage‚ Thomas Swick mentions how sometimes when individuals travel they are caught up in seeing that they forget to partake in living in the moment. This leads to people feeling left out and lonely which is perhaps the
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